Corkscrew register.



Patented Mar. l3 I900. H MASKE CORKSCREW REGISTER,

(Application filed Sept. 27, 1599.,

(No Model.)

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HENRY MASKE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CORKSCREW REGISTER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,401, dated March 13, 1900.

Application filed September 273 1899. Serial No. 731,795. (No model.)

- aster to patients, whose care is improved. Its

object, further and otherwise, is to keep account or register quantities taken from or added to the contents of receptacles such as bottles, jugs, flasks, vials, cans, kegs, demijohns, and others.

The nature of this'device is a circular group of figures from 1 to 12, representing a dial on the top face or surface of a cork stopper, in connection with a pointer-arm, the latter being the upper and untwisted end and forming a projection or arm at nearly right angles to the screw of a wire corkscrew.

Figure 1 in annexed drawings is a side elevation of a cork stopper to which is applied my improvement. Fig. 2 is a sectional view taken on line 2 2, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the corkscrew. Fig. 4 is a view similar to Fig. 1 and taken at right angles to it.

The pointer-arm is shown at letter B of Figs. 1, 2, 3, and 4, the latter being the upper or untwisted end of the rod or wire of which the corkscrew is made, situated at the upper spiral terminal of the screw; letter A, Fig. 3, on an ordinary wire right corkscrew, (meaning a corkscrew that is inserted by turning the same to the right 3) letter C, Fig. 3, pointing outward at an angle slightly beyond a right angle from the body of the screw, permitting the same to be moved to the left hand with its outer point with the corkscrew, clearing the outer flat surface or top outer margin of the cork stopper; letter D, Fig. 2, after the screw. has been fully inserted; letter F, Fig. 1, showing the junction of both the cork and twisted shoulder of the pointer-arm and indicating the position of the corkscrew when fully insorted; figures printed, stamped, or branded on the upper flat surface of the outer margin of the cork, letter E, Fig. 2, divided into numbered hours or other periods of time, including measurements of quantities taken from or added to such holders in which this device can be used, permitting the operator to set the pointer-arm above any one of said figures or above any other point between them, thereby registering at pleasure either for time of taking medicine or registering quantities taken from or added to the contents of receptacles for which corks and corkscrews are used.

I am aware that it is not new to employ a dial connected with a pointer in connection with medicine-bottles to indicate the hour or time when the dose is to be taken; but the particular construction herein set forth, wherein an ordinary wire corkscrew is used in connection with a cork-stopper dial, forms a useful device and possibly one which would warrant its adoption for general use.

My invention may be employed in connec tion with a left-hand corkscrew, in which case the figures on the dial would be reversed, so as to read in the direction opposite to that shown in the drawings.

I claim The combination of a corkscrew having a HENRY MASKE.

\Vitnesses:

T. MYGDAL, J. O. BJERKE. 

